The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
Every productive day starts with the right mindset—and the right snacks. Long days of editing, mixing, and sound designing can’t run on caffeine alone! Here’s a peek at the snack lineup that powers the Boom Box team through long mixes, heavy editorial and the occasional plugin crash.
Building out your studio desk and workspace can become very expensive. But not every upgrade has to break the bank. Sometimes it’s the small, thoughtful additions that end up having the biggest impact on your workflow, comfort, and overall studio vibe. Here are five wallet-friendly upgrades you can make to your home or professional studio that make an impact without hurting your wallet (too much).
As sound professionals, our most important tool isn’t a plugin or piece of gear, it’s our ability to hear. You’d never trust a mix on broken studio monitors or faulty headphones, so it makes no sense to overlook the health of your own ears! In this post I’d like to discuss our ears and how to care for them to ensure a long and prolific career in audio post.
What does a Mustang, a parking lot, and ten pounds of ice have in common? They’ve all played starring roles in our journey to capture our own custom sound effects for shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and more. In sound design, originality matters. Whether it’s the roar of the Shellraiser or the chilling movement of an Ice Dragon, there’s no substitute for getting your hands dirty and your mic in the middle of it all.
We’ve gathered five of our favorite behind-the-scenes recording sessions that showcase what it takes to build immersive, character-driven sound from scratch. Each one includes real recording footage, final demo clips, and a glimpse into the creative process. Hope you enjoy!
With the Fourth of July quickly approaching, it felt like the perfect opportunity to put together a sound design sketch that captures the magic of this holiday, as I fondly remember it in childhood.
The power of the modern digital audio workstation (DAW) is easy to take for granted these days. DAWs give us the power to sound design, edit and mix all from the convenience of an affordable consumer laptop. That obviously was not always the case. From the days of razor blades and magnetic tape, audio post-production tools have gone through major transformations over several decades. Here's a glance at a few eras that laid the groundwork to reshape how we approach sound editorial and mixing today.
We cannot possibly express enough gratitude to the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild for interviewing us about our Boom Box Post journey and making the decision to put us on the cover of the latest edition of Wavelength Magazine.
The average American spends 8.5 hours a day working. That’s 42.5 hours a week, and a whopping 2,210 hours every year! If, like me your job ties you to a desk, that space is probably the only place other than your bed in which you’ll spend nearly that much time. But how many of us give any consideration to how the space is set up? Or how we position ourselves at that desk? Here’s a basic checklist for you to run down in order to optimize your workspace, and in turn, your overall wellbeing and health.
As sound editors, it's crucial that we approach our edits with the mixer's needs in mind. In previous posts we’ve covered how to deliver clean, organized edits to help streamline the mixing stage. But what about processing to remove additional steps for our mixer? In this post, I’ll share simple but effective techniques to tidy up your sound editorial without causing a headache for the mixer down the line.
With a seemingly limitless number of plugins at our fingertips today, it's easy for the most rudimentary tools to go under appreciated. Among the Avid stock plugins, one of THE most frequently used, yet lesser discussed is the 'Reverse' AudioSuite. This tool is as simple as they come, but what it lacks in bells and whistles it makes up for in creative potential. Today I thought I'd discuss a few ways I like to use it and demonstrate with examples.
As a team of audio professionals obsessed with sound, we love praising the audio tools that inspire us in our everyday work. Whether it’s a sound mangling vocal processor or the latest and greatest reverb plugin…but what about the unsung heroes of the tools we use daily: those that actually facilitate our audio post operations? Here are a handful of tools and solutions we use to successfully run our operations here at Boom Box Post!
Did you enjoy our past editions of ‘What’s That Sound?’ quizzes? Let’s see if you can guess what sounds we have come up with this time! Listen closely, good luck and have fun!
As a sound effects editor, you are likely part of a team of editors who eventually hand their work off to a re-recording mixer. It’s important to understand that the way that you organize your work is often just as important to your mixer and the final end product as is your creative quality.
With Spring in full effect and Summer right around the corner, the world is becoming more and more inviting to explore and record! We felt it was the perfect time to revisit some of the field recording blog posts we’ve written over the years that may have been forgotten deep in the blog archives. So here are the top 5 we’ve let resurface for your reading pleasure, to serve as inspiration and a guide for returning to the field!
I’m addicted to markers. They help me organize, plan, and stay on schedule every episode I work on. They also serve as a visual reward where you can see the progress you’re making as you delete markers as you go. In this blog post I’ll give you some tips and tricks on how to use markers to your advantage, and give you some ideas on how it may fit into your workflow.
This past week we chatted with one of our supervising sound editors, Tess Fournier! Tess has shared so much insider knowledge here over the years but we felt it was time to get an update on both a professional and personal level!
A re-recording mixer possesses many technical skills. Here at Boom Box Post, we’ve covered the subject in countless posts. But outside of the technical realm, what other skills are useful on the job? Here are my top 10.
As sound editors, we’re always looking for opportunities to fortify our sound effects library. A great sound editor can deliver excellent editorial with even the most limited toolbox. However, for a team that works on demanding series of varying styles with quick turnarounds—getting bogged down by a weak library isn’t an option.
For aspiring editors and audio students, I always come across one tip in—to start building up a personal SFX library. So I complied a list of 10 spring inspired sounds, that if you have access to, you should go out and record this refreshing time of year!
How often do you look up at the clock in disbelief that day is already halfway gone? Time is easy to lose track of and there’s nothing worse than feeling behind on your projects. We interviewed our expert mixers and sound editors for their input on how to consistently deliver work in a professional manner: on time!
